| Body/Head / No Waves |
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| Album: | No Waves | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Body/Head | Added: | Nov 2016 | |
| Label: | Matador Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2016-11-23 | Pull Date: | 2017-01-22 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | Jan 22 | Jan 15 | Jan 8 | Jan 1 | Dec 18 | Dec 11 | Dec 4 | Nov 27 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 26, 2017: | a strange pursuit The Show Is Over | 4. | Jan 07, 2017: | a strange pursuit Abstract/Actress | |
| 2. | Jan 18, 2017: | deep storage Abstract/Actress | 5. | Jan 05, 2017: | a strange pursuit The Show Is Over | |
| 3. | Jan 12, 2017: | a strange pursuit The Show Is Over | 6. | Dec 29, 2016: | 1102026 Sugar Water |
| Album Review |
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| Telepathic Juan Reviewed 2016-11-23 | ||
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Body/Head’s No Waves is a live recording from March 28, 2014 that was part of the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee. Through three pieces, the improvisational noise-rock duo formed by Kim Gordon and Bill Nace produced a stirring wave of guitar and vocal noises and accelerations occasionally complemented by some harmonica sounds. The record feels dense considering the sparse elements and I couldn’t be more pleased with Kim Gordon’s anguished and nonsensical singing. This is one of three live albums Body/Head released this year. RIYL: The Dead C., Sunn O))), Sun City Girls, The Static and Sonic Youth’s Sonic Youth Records releases. FCC CLEAN! Recommended Tracks: 1, 2 and 3 1. (7:48) *Sugar Water – Vocal gibberish structured as a response chanting to distorted guitar strumming. Cyclical, quite ceremonial. 2. (8:31) **The Show Is Over – Brief back and forth guitar interventions soaked in pedal distortions are the backbone of this track. Sporadic indecipherable vocals emerge along the way – sound like singing after dental surgery. Some harmonica sounds filtered through effects. Abrupt ending. Thrilling composition. 3. (23:39) **Abstract/Actress – Ambitious composition gluing together fragments, sounds and furies from two separate tracks from their debut album, Coming Apart, released just a year earlier. Lots of pedal effect manipulations and masterful guitar control. Unpredictable and constantly dynamic. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Sugar Water | 2. | The Show Is Over | |||
| 3. | Abstract/Actress | |||||